Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-14
MINNESOTA GLEANINGS.

We're Is deaths and '4Ubirtdts~
7 Samuel j. Hasler, a Red WING
pioneer died last week, at an advanced
age.
! John Mccain the fli'stt white settler
on the shores of Lake Pepin, died last
week, aged "A year. III"
In 1886 there were 1877 deaths ut
Wmona, per centage of 9!sg5 ON the
population of 10000.
During the cold wave last week LIE
Sueur registered 45 below Zero,
Rochester ~, Lake City a., W'adena
| 46.
| Twelve hundred members ofi4t. Paul
snow~shoc and toboggan clubs maeae
tn excursion to St. Cloud on the srts,
and had jolly, good time.
At. Chatfield, Mike Morrison, a COLI
testant in recent light, is seriously i'm
Jurod, having two teeth broken OFT. a
little finger bitten off at the first Joint
and bad eye. Fear is entertained Of
blood poisoning.
Ihe annual report of the Louisville,
Scott Co., Farmers Mutual Insurance
company shows forty ~cight policies in
| force since Jan. with a total amount
of $57,323. The total expense Of tlie
| association for the year 1886 amounts
to $34 IS.
The following is tne report of Hans
johnson, clerk of the district court at
| Red Wing, Of the receipts for the BUSH
| ness done last year; For recording
births and deaths, $l1S.SO; 22l mar
rage licenses. 1922; naturalization
papers, $l6O; miscellaneous business,
$1,072.62
The Austin Savings and Building as
ISOLATION with the capital stock of
$500, 0o0. has been organized, with O..
| w, Shaw, president; G. H. Davidson,
| v'ce-president; S. J.. Howell, score
| tary; G. II. Coats, treasurer; and Lii
fayette French, attorney and Il board
| of nine directors.
County officers salaries in Wabasha
county for 1887 have been announced as
follows, county attorney and superin-
tendent Of schools $1,000 and 81 200,
respectively. The county liquor license
was fixed at 800, wolf bounty same as
| paid y state and wildcat bounty So.
for each cat killed.
A city paper OF the 9Th published the
following Osakis item; John Rand
who is now over seventy three years of
age, and who procured divorce from
his fifth wife a month ago, was mar
ried yesterday to lady from, Boston.
Rand advertised in !, Boston paper foa
| wife, and the result is as above
stated.
At the meeting of the commissioners
of Mower County the treasurnrs bont|
for $4,000, signed by 4S sureties, was
accepted; the salary Of county attorney
was fixed at $500 and auditors clerk
| at $500, The sberif's statement
| showed the receipts for 1885; Hor that
| office to be s1,342, "a, and of the clerk
court $1,526,50.
According to the Internal Revenue
department, the oleomargarine traffic OF
Minnesota is not of alarming proper
tons. The statistics cover the period
of one month, and give the informa-
ton that there are only three whole
! sale and two retail dealers in oleomar-
| garlne in the state. and that the number
of pounds Of the article assessed was
only 2,73l.
Representative Knutp Nelson has
introduced q bill in tho Huuse provid-
| ing that any person who: i'll good faith
has purchased railroad ihlbmnity lands
and made valuable improvements there.
on, may, when the lands from any
cause are restorcdi to tile. public do
| main. it he cannob enter such lands
under the homestead, pre-emption or
timber culture laws. be permitted to
make private entry within one year at
the price of 81 20 per aare.
Congressman Nelson has notified the
the Indian Commissioner that he will
| oppose the tge aties and agreements
made last summer with the Chippewas
and Mile Laos III MINNESOTA, which
must be ratified by congress to go into
| effect. The agreements as they now
| stand provide thar the timber lands
shall he'dlsposed OF in forty acre par
GELS, at auction, sealed bids to be
submitted for them. = The agri.
cultural hands are to he dis
posed of in the sanAs way in 100 acre
parcels. Mr.. Nelsos says it is prepos.
ferrous to dispose OF agricultural lands
in this, way; that ths land laws should
be extended over these lands and set.
tiers allowed to take them under the
homestead act or by some such provis.
ion as is contained in tho Dawes
bill relating to the Sioux reservation.
The disposal of the timber lands in the
manner proposed Mr., Nelson has no OBJ.
lection to, but his strong opposition tc
the agreement rs now arranged is what
has chiefly caused the bureau to hest.
itate. about sending these agreements te
congress. .. go -.
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